 <span class="boldtext">1. How do I install ElegantEstate onto my wordpress blog? </span> 
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  <p>There are several files included in the ZIP folder. These include wordpress theme files, plugin files, and photoshop files. To installed your wordpress theme you will first need to upload the theme/plugin files via FTP to your server. </p> 
  <p>First you are going to upload the theme folder. Inside the ZIP folder you downloaded you will see a folder named &quot;theme.&quot; Within it is a folder named &quot;ElegantEstate.&quot; Via ftp, upload the &quot;ElegantEstate&quot; folder to your Wordpress themes directory. Depending on where you installed Wordpress on your server, the wp themes folder will be located in a path similar to: /public_html/blog/wp-content/themes. </p> 
  <p>Next you need to select ElegantEstate and make it your default theme. Click on the design link, and under the themes tab locate ElegantEstate from the selection of themes and activate it. Your blog should now be updated with your new theme. </p> 
<p>Finally, once the theme has been activated, you should navigate to the Appearances > ElegantEstate Theme Options page. Here you can adjust settings pertaining to theme's display. Once you have adjusted whatever settings you would like to change click the "save" button. You must click the "save" button for the options to be saved to the database. Even if you did not change anything you should click the save button once before using the theme to insure that the database has been written correctly.</p> 
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<span class="boldtext">2. How do I add the thumbnails to my posts? </span> 
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  <p>ElegantEstate utilizes a script called TimThumb to automatically resize images. When you make a post, you will notice that a set of new options has been added below the text editor. Within this set of options are fields where you can input the URL to your thumbnail images. Each post can have up to 8 images assigned to it, each of which will be placed on the post page. The first image will be used as your Thumbnail image on the homepage/index pages of your website. Your image will automatically be resized and cropped. The image must be hosted on your domain. (this is to protect against bandwidth left) </p> 
  <p><span class="style1">Important Note: You <u>must</u> CHMOD the &quot;cache&quot; folder located in the ElegantEstate directory to 777 for this script to work. You can CHMOD (change the permissions) of a file using your favorite FTP program. If you are confused try following <a href="http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ftp/ftp_chmod.htm"><u>this tutorial</u></a><u>.</u> Of course instead of CHMODing the template folder (as in the tutorial) you would CHMOD the &quot;cache&quot; folder found within your theme's directory. </span></p> 
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<span class="boldtext">3. How do I add my title/logo? </span> 
<div class="indent">In this theme the title/logo is an image, which means you will need an image editor to add your own text. You can do this by opening the blank logo image located at Photoshop Files/logo_blank.png, or by opening the logo PSD file located at Photoshop Files/logo.psd. Replace the edited logo with the old logo by placing it in the following directory: theme/ElegantEstate/images, and naming the file "logo.png". If you need more room, or would like to edit the logo further, you can always do so by opening the original fully layered PSD file located at Photoshop Files/ElegantEstate.psd  </div> 
 
<span class="boldtext">4. How do I manage advertisements on my blog? </span> 
<div class="indent">You can change the images used in each of the advertisements, as well as which URL each ad points to, through the custom option pages found in wp-admin. Once logged in to the wordpress admin panel, click &quot;Design&quot; and then &quot;ElegantEstate Theme Options&quot; to reveal the various theme options. You can also use the 125x125 advertisement widget by adding the ET: Advertisement widget to your sidebar, and filling in the required fields.  </div> 
 
  <span class="boldtext">5. How do I set up the featured slider on the homepage? </span> 
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  <p>The featured slider can be set up using two different methods. You can either popular the tabs using Pages, or you can popular it using posts from a designated category. In the Appearances > ElegantEstate Theme Options page in wp-admin, under the General Settings > Featured Slider tab, you will see an option that says "Use Pages." If you select this option then pages will be used, if you don't then posts will be used. If you want to use Pages then you simply select "Use Pages," and then below the option select which pages you would like to display in the slider. If you don't use pages, then simply select the "Featured Category" from the dropdown menu and posts from that category will be added to the slider. </p></div> 
  
  <span class="boldtext">6. How do I set up the "browse listings" widget that appears in my sidebar? </span> 
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  <p>The "browse listings" box was created to give your users an alternate way of browsing your website. Within this box are three dropdown menus, each of which is a collection of post categories that you define. You can add any categories you like to this box, which means each dropdown menu can feature a different set of parameters.  For example, in the ElegantEstate demo, (<a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/ElegantEstate/">http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/ElegantEstate/</a>) the first dropdown menu filters my listings by price. Do do this I first created 6 different post categories:
  
  $500,000 - $1,000,000 <br /> 
  $1,000,000 - $1,500,000 <br /> 
  $1,500,000 - $2,000,000 <br /> 
  $2,000,000 - $2,500,000 <br /> 
  $2,500,000 - $3,000,000 <br /> 
  $3,000,000 - $3,500,000 <br /> 
  
  Next I added each of my posts to the correct category, based on the price of each listing. After that, I added these six categories to the first "browse listings" dropdown menu via the "Browse Listings" tab in the Appearances > ElegantEstate Theme Options page in wp-admin. Upon opening this tab in ePanel you will notice that there are four lists of categories, each of which represents one of the Browse Listings dropdown menus. In my case, I checked each of the above categories for the first dropdown menu. <br  /> 
  
  Finally, I removed these categories from my navigation via the Navigation tab of ePanel to avoid clutter.
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  <span class="boldtext">7. How do I create a "Blog"? </span> 
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  <p>By default, each of your posts and categories will assume the "real estate" post layout. However, you can also define one of your categories as your "Blog," which will cause this category's layout to change to a more traditional blog layout. To do this, simply choose which category that you would like to use as your blog via the General Settings tab of ePanel. </p></div> 
  
  <span class="boldtext">8. How do I set up my real estate listings correctly? </span> 
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  <p>Setting up your real estate listings is easy. Each listing is a normal post in a normal category. When you write a new post, you will notice that a new set of options has been added below the text editor. Here you can define the details of your listing. You will notice fields for property info (property type, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, number of garages and square footage), price, thumbnail images as well as the ability to integrate Google Maps.</p></div> 